Fish and Wildlife Missed Congressional Deadline to Protect Longfin Smelt Press release from the San Francisco Baykeeper: San Francisco Baykeeper...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A preliminary injunction that could cut water being taken out of the Kern River if...
Supreme Court Decision Upholds Ruling that Twitchell Dam Operators Must Comply with Federal Law to Protect Endangered Fish Press release from the Environmental Defense Center: The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a request from the operators of Twitchell Dam to...
Three claims remain against Charlton Bonham, executive director of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, and certain others can...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The California Court of Appeal has dismissed the remaining appeal challenging the state’s long-term management...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Whenever drought has struck in recent years and Californians were ordered, beseeched and shamed into conserving water, many frustrated residents pointed to Nestlé, which continued extracting tens of millions of gallons of springwater every year...
The Tuesday decision by the State Water Resources Control Board affects 10 of 13 water diversion sites in the Strawberry...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Following numerous complaints from the public, a multi-year investigation and an adjudicative proceeding...
Three measures to overhaul state oversight of water use, giving the state water board more authority over holders of senior water rights, were introduced in the Legislature this year but the most important two died. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters...
Monday’s order upholds the notion that irrigators’ rights come after the Bureau of Reclamation’s obligations to protected fish species and...
Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water...
The bureau claimed the state’s standards — which it called discriminatory — would hamper its operation of the New Melones Dam and Reservoir. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News Service A federal judge agreed with California that the U.S. Bureau of...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water A group of water users on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley is...
Undisclosed finances and vague federal contract left court in the dark. Door now wide open for Biden administration to revise...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A local group that’s suing the City of Bakersfield for how it manages the Kern River, is seeking a court order that would force the city to keep water in the normally dry riverbed as...